- Woden Valley
Woden Valley is a district of
Canberra , the capital city ofAustralia . Its name is taken from the name of a nearby homestead owned by Dr James Murray who named the homestead after the Nordic God Woden in October 1837 [Murray of Yarralumla by Gwendoline Wilson p81] . He named it this as he was to spend his life in the pursuit of wisdom and Woden was amongst other things, the God of wisdom. In1964 it was the first "satellite city " to be built, separate from the Central Canberra district. It has its own shopping centre, employment opportunities and accommodation with 13 suburbs arranged around theWoden Town Centre .Places of note and interest
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Canberra Hospital , previously called Woden Valley Hospital, is Canberra's primaryhospital .
*Eddison Park, [ [http://www.tams.act.gov.au/play/parks_forests_and_reserves/parkslakesandponds/urbanparks/districtparks/eddisonpark Eddison Park Web Page] ] a park for peace in Woden andWeston Creek
*IP Australia , Australia's equivalent to the US Patent Office, is located at the Woden Town Centre.
*Woden Town Centre is the major shopping and office complex in the Woden Valley. It includes a substantial indoor shopping mall calledWestfield Woden . Locally the Mall is known as Woden Plaza as this was the original name of the mall when it first opened.Natural disasters
Bushfires
While the majority of the destruction caused by the
Canberra bushfires of 2003 occurred in Weston Creek, houses in the Woden suburbs of Curtin (3), Lyons (4) and Torrens (2) [ [http://www.ga.gov.au/urban/projects/nrap/canberra_disasters.jsp| Geoscience Australia] ] were also destroyed. Curtin, in particular, has been threatened by bushfires several times since its construction.Floods
On
Australia Day in 1971 a flash flood at Yarra Glen killed seven people. Bystanders described the flood as "not that flash" Fact|date=June 2008. The drains and roads in the area have since been redesigned to avoid future flood casualties. (See1971 Canberra flood .) [ [http://www.ema.gov.au/ema/emadisasters.nsf/0/bf5eb05feb98ef76ca256d3300057ba6?OpenDocument EMA Disasters Database] ]Cultural Bodies
The
Woden Valley Youth Choir takes its name from the district.Sport
Woden Valley is a vital area when it comes to sport in the A.C.T. It's
football (soccer) club,Woden Valley FC (Woden Rival), is very popular amongst juniors. Woden Vally also has a rugby league team (Woden Rams) and an Australian rules football team (Woden Blues.External links
* [http://www.suburbs.canberra.net.au/html/fsregion.htm Canberra region map] - all districts
References
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